The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-01-16
TIE GREAT ooAL sra1KE.
The Situation Unchanged-Rumors tina 6
the strike viii End Tomorrow.

| Lne SItnuIhOu UuCnHnROU-Kum0fS tuAl
the strike viii End Tomorrow.
The great coal strike still exists and up
to midnight last night practically no change
had taken place during the preceding
twenty four hours. All day yesterday quiet
prevailed at all the docks. The United
States Courts notices warning against IL
reference with the property of the railroad
that is under the protection of tho Court
were posted up in Blyonne and Elizabeth
| yesterday afternoon, and Supt. Reasoner.
| of the Delaware, hackawanna and Western
called upon Mayor Kerr yesterday morn
| ing to ask to what extent the docks at
| Weehawken will be protected by the city
authorities, and all around there are indi-
cations of concerted preparations among
the coal companies for the resumption Of
work on Monday. If that is done, it is be-
lieved that the strike will extend to all the
men engaged now in the transportation of
coal.
Yesterday afternoon E. W. Youmans and
Thomas Strip, two New York coal dealers,
sent long line of carts for coal to the coal
trestle of the Pennsylvania Railroad at
Henderson and Sixth streets. The drivers
were set upon by band of Hoboken coal
beavers, numbering almost an hnndre d,
who succeeded in driving the interlopers
off without accomplishing their errand.
No one, howev or, was hurt.
LeGrand B, Cannon, President of the
Delaware and Hudson Canal Company,
yesterday addressed letter to the several
large coal companies, calling upon them
to resume work.
The strikers are considerably annoyed at
the tactics adopted by the Steam Heating
Company, of New York. Being unable to
get all the coal they need Ly beat, they
ons, coal carts, drays, trucks, butcher
carts and evary imaginable vehicle over to
the retail yarps for coal.
Mayor Cleveland was waited on by
body of the strikers yesterday afternoon
who asked him to prevent all but license d
drawers to haul cJal from the docks to the
water front for transportation to New
York. 1t was understood last night that
there hao been a meeting between the coal
haulers and boatmen for the parpose of
inducing the beat men not to carry coal to
New York and thereby cripple the strike
but inquiring among the boat men failed
to elicit any information on the subject
There is no doubt, however, that such an
effort was made. One of the boat men
said to the reporter that he had it
on urSt class autuollgy that the 5trlke
would end on Monday, but with
what results he declined to state.
About six o'clock last evening two of the
largest coal trucks used by the Jersey City
Coal Company were being drawn down
Pavonia avenue loaded with coal. Near
Henderson street gang of strikers rushed
out and pulling out the pin that confines
the tail board dumped both loads in the
middle OF the street. An officer was sent
for, but by the time he arrived all that was
lett of the five tons of coal was little pile
of dus', the industrious inhabi tants having
carried the balance away.
At the Weehawken coal docks, last night,
the guard was still on, but not striker was
to be seen. One of the strikers told the
reporter that the Erie Company, which has
dock at the foot of Nineteenth street, has
agreed to give the men the twenty five
cents an hour they demand. He said the
men would go to work on Monday morn
ing. The dock at the foot of Sixth street,
this city, was in charge of an officer last
night. Quite a number of the strikers
hung around the place all the eyaning.